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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-04-29

I'm looking for somebody down the street.
Some one l never Xpcct to meet.
Somebody tall ana young and fair
Who used to loiter about the STAIR
And wait toaecompany me over the stilc,
And carry my books for me once in while,
As we both passed out through the swinging
door
In those dear old college days of yore.
Hes married and happy, and 50 am |.
| wouldn't meet him for the world not |.
For fear that one or the other might trace,
BY some chance word or confusion OF face,
The little secret we kept so we'll;
The open secret which Others couid tell,
Which we in orr innocence, thought Ia keep
best,
by guarding ii safe each within our own
breast.
Ills, perhaps, rs well That twas never con
fcssed,
As we both passed ont through the swinging
door,
In those dear old college days OF gore.
I'm looking for somebody down the street,
some one never expect TO meet;
But somehow or other love 10 look,
And all | can see is n boy with his book.
And just at his side is my own little elf,
Ny girl of sixteen, my Gertrude herself.
They've unearthed an heirloom 50 pretty it
seems
To their foolish young hearts with their fam
ciful dreams.
'ris the secret which we--his fatherand l.
Hid away in our hearts so careful and sly,
As we both passed out through the swingi ng
door,
In the dear old college days of yore.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-04-29
LITTLE FOXES.
Bob Burdettc.s Little Sermon.

BOD Bufucttc kAlttlc StfInOns
There are thousands foxes to one lion,
and it is hard work to watch them all the
time, but eternal vigilance is the price of
good character, and
Evil is caused by want OF thought
As well rs want of heart.
Ii would be easier to be a martyr, and
90 down to the block, or to the stake and
have ones head cut of, or be burned to a
crisp at once, and be done with, than it is
to endure eight or ten years of rheumatism.
SO much the more honor to the patient
victims of rheumatism than the martyrs.
know it is easier to be a President of
the United States, and be good one, too,
than it is to go to sleep with the earache,
or with three small mosquitoes in the
room that have made mp their minds to
horrible repast of human blood. | know
out of the breadth and depth of my own
experience, know whereof affirm know
it is an easier matter to edit a newspaper
than it is to put the baby to sleep when
the baby isn't feeling particularly sleepy
lust then. know the little trials are the
hardest; the little temptations are the
strongest. The man WHO will scorn to
steal horse will swear a little some
times. The man who could not be hired
to forge note will somtimes help to cir
crlate ca mpaign lie; the man who will not
commit mu rider will occasionally sGold his
wife; an d tie man who would scorn to lie
under an other circumstance can't be
trusted in horse trade. 1t is easy for an
honest man to refuse bride; it is hard for
the same man to tell the truth about the
number and size Of the trout he
caught. 1t is comparatively easy to
obey the big commandments; it's the finer
meshes of the little net that will entangle
so many Of us.
Dearly beloved, don't try TO be heroes
then. Don't aim to be wingless saints
Don't aspire to the distinction of martyr
dom. Try to be good, every day, honest,
Christian men and women. and see il you
have not your hands full. Don't waste
your time lion hunting; the lions never
hurt any body; but Take us the foxes,
the little foxes that spoil tho vines, for onr
vines have tender grapes. Burdets,
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-04-29
NOW To MAKE YOURSELF AGREE-
ABLE.

Very rarely, if ever, young persons ae-
quire the ability 10 converse with ease and
flueney This implies, first of all, good
ideas, clearly and sensibly expressed. An
empty mind never made a good talker; re-
member, you cannot draw water out of
an empty welt. Next in importance is
self-possession. 'Self-possession is nine
points in the law of good breeding.
4 good voice is as essential to self-pos-
session as good ideas are essential to fluent
language The voice, from infancy, should
be carefully trained and developed: a full,
clear. flexible voice is one of the surest in
dications of good breeding; it falls like
music on the ear. and while it pleases the
listener, it adds to the confidence of its
possessor, be he ever so timid. One may
be witty without being popular: volable
without being agreeable; a great talker
and yet a great bore. 1t is wise, then, tn
note carefully the following suggestions:
BE sincere; he who habitually sneers at
everything, viii not only render himself dis
agreeble to others, but will soon cease to
find pleasure in life.
Be frank; a frank, open coantenance,
and a clear. eheery laugh, are worth far
more, even socially, than pedantry in
stiff cravat.
BE amable; yo,l may hide vindictiye
nature under polite exterior for a time,
as cat masks its sharp claws in velvet
fur, but the least provoeation brings ont
one as quickly as the other; ill-natured
persons are always disliked
BE sensible; society never lacks for
fools. II you want elbow room, go NJ
higher.
BE cheerful; if you have no great trouble
on your mind, you have no right to render
other people miserable by your long face
and doloroas tones ii you do you win be
generally avoided.
But above all, be cordial; true cordially
unites all the qualities we have enumerat-
daseficae igricaltafFsi .for fpri1
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-04-29

did the same. The three of Us undertook
to manage the house. and once things got
in running order we found no great diff
Guilty with the scheme interviewed the
grocer and the butcher and the fish dealer.
and have been experimenting from the
start with simple meals Of wholesome va
riety and material. Seventy boarders was
the utmost number we had room to ae-
commodate, and seventy boarders were on
our list before the first three weeks had
gone by. When the first month of our ex-
pertinent was over we had money in hand
for second months rent and more in our
pockets than if we had stayed in the store.
After looking at our four weeks balance
sheet put aside the last thought Of dis
aster to my plan. II would work; it was
working and patience and good health
could not help carrying it forward with
out fall
The building in which the cheerful par
agraph of the city's history is being writ
ten is a double brick house, Astounding in
a multiplicity of small rooms, in quiet
by street. It is not over furnished, but it
never groans at 4 sewing machine, nor
frowns at canary bird, nor tangles a
woman in rules and regulations till she
struggles for fresh air. It has a reading
room and germ of library and it supplies
home comforts and home rest at a charge
not exceeding from g to $3.50 per week.
The latest project now under discussion is
to put the working girls enterprise on
more permanent and substantial basis by
making of the whole institution cooper
alive scheme. Low priced shares of few
dollars each will be bought by the women
out of their savings, and if it seems exped-
lent fluid will be established for the pur-
chase of the house.-Ne@ York Jfad md
Erpress.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-04-29

shattcr and destroy theneryous system, we
defile the temple Of the living God within
us and drive out the Divine Spirit. The
moment the Divine Spirit goes out and
in and take possession Of the ruins. From
out its broken windows their eyeballs
glare; along its corridors and through its
vacant halls they hiss and howl; in the
man and on the man they dance the jubilee
OF hell. 1t is as much the devil that tor
ments the inebriated maniac aud drives
him to the wall, as it was devils, in the
days of Christ, who tormented the Gada-
against the tombs. i.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-04-29
VOL. ".
PROGRESS.

Let there be many windows in Your sonl.
That all the glory OF the universe
May heautiiy it. Not the narrow pane
OF one poor creed can catch the radicnt rays
That shine from countless sources. Tear away
The blinds of superstition; let the light
Pour through fair windows broad rs truth it,
self
And high rs God.
Why should the spirit peer
Through some pricstcnrtaincd oriiicc. ana
grope
Along dim corridors of doubt, when all
The splendor from unfathomcd seas of space
Might battle it with golden waves oflovo?
sweep up the debris of deeaying faiths:
Sweep down the cobwebs of worn-out beliefs,
And throw your soul wide open to the light
OF Reason and of knowledge. Tune your car
TO all the worthless music of the stars
And to the voice OF nature, and your heart
Shall turn TO truth and goodness, rs the
plant
Turns TO the sun y thousand unseen hands
Reach down to help you to their peace
crowned heights,
And all the forces of the ornament
Shall fortify your strength. BE not afraid
TO thrust aside half truths and grasp the
whole.
IN
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-04-29

Not one Of Nictorias sons to-day en-
joys bis splendid apartments more than
our young friends enjoy theirs. Even their
father, although he affects to scorn such
things, is sure to take every stranger up
there, and to say, ''ye thought we'd make
these fellows happy for once"
No one now complains Of the Lane boys
for hooting from the top of stone walls or
bowling about the streets by night; and
their mother says their music and their
company donot disturb her half as much
as the anxiety as to where they were by
night used to do. Yoath's Companion.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-04-29
Written Tor the MONITOR.
CALENDAR OF TIsOUGHTS.
BY fhe week.
EN j. VI. :
MAY.


SUNDAY 1.-The hand that is thrilled of
a pure heart can not do anything dishon-
oring. Anything that tina: hand does is en-
nobling, both for him whose hand it is and
him for whom or in the knowledge of
whom the thing is done.
MONDAY 2.-God's pioneers and ploughs
are at work, and His wilderness will yet
become farest garden.
TUESDAY 3.-Cheerfu words are the
leaves of life laughing in the low-whlsper-
ed love of summer winds.
WEDNESDAY, 4.-Tastc DER eating,
health fast iieeting.
THURSDAY g..
hand to nearest duties faithful set
Nc'er weavcs the Ncssius shirt of fret.
FRIDAY G.-Sow pride, leap fools, sad
growing from sins Shiny pools.
SATURDAY IA too great insistence
upon personal tights may become sinful
selfishness.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-04-29

That we can, in connection with the MoNiToH
secure You Il subscription TO any paper or
magazine published, at much lower price
than the regular rate, and yon Will do well to
let us know If you are contemplating a sub
scrption 10 any publication.
THE MONITOR. W oodstOWu. n }.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-04-29

SAYS that his little girl is troubled With
malaria very severely. and that since be
gave her Sulphur Bitters, he never thinks
of leaving New York for his summer re-
sort without few bottles, for they always
cure his family, and are Car superior to
qninine. Apra92t
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-04-29
THE SWINGING DOOR.

Wheeler Uiteon.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-04-29
PATENT MEDICINES

Hcb1pbose to KEEP stock OF
aHMc cartons Proprietary Ncai-
zines that there IS any demana
ter end at4X /5om time to time,
add to or shofk all mrh that mag
be euqul1rd fer. Ne annex a
price list and fan furnish any
b10cmu6Le articles IN this line
at a6ont tic sane acreage of Price
as beloz0
Ayers Cherry Pcctorai 65c
Hop Filters. t5c
ShIkers' Extract toe
Ayers Salsaparilla, Toe
Hilcoclts Porons rlastcrs, ioe
Harker's Nerve aud Bone Lniment, l6c
Bankers Horse and Cattle Powder l2c
I;cnson's Gapcine plnsters, lie
COx's Geatinc. l5c
Green's August Flower, iGc
iloiloway's Worm Candy, l2c
Hansen's Butter Cooring, lSc
.Iaync's pills. lie
.faync'a Alternative, 65c
Jayne's Expectornnt soc
KanEoi's Bitter Wine OF Iron CSC
Kidney Wort, zoe
Pure IAmphor. two o., O5c
Pure Camphor. per on, 0Sc
Rough on Rats, Gic
Sewing Machine Oil 0Sc
Schcnck'- Mandrake Pills nc
Swniin's panacca $3.50
Wells ( Richardson's Butter Coloring, lsc
Wright'S Indian Vegetable Pills, 13c
Warmers Kidney and Liver Cure. s3c
Warmers Tippecanoc, Use
WiShart's Tar Cordial, 65c
IIoohands podophylin Pills Ice
Iterrick : Pills, l5c
Morse's Indian Root pills, lJc
Brandrcth'S Pills, loo
Ayers CatlIartie Pills, lie
Warmers Safe Pills, l5c
Wells May Apple pills Ole
shallenberger's Fever and Ague Pills, 75c
Pinkham's Liver Pills, l5c
Parsons Purgative Pills l5c
Cams Kidney Cure, ;ac
Mother Mobiles syrup 40c
Shakers Extract of Roots, lSc
Lyons insect Powder $l.lJ
kennedy's Medical discovery, l5c
Kirby's Cholera Drops. tSc
Parker's Ginger Tonic, ;ijc
st. Jacob : Oil, fSc
Walkers Vinegar Bittcis, Csc
Mrs Pinkhams Vegetable Compound, 75c
Schnecll's Sea Weed Tonic. 75c
Schneck's Puimonic Syrup. 7Jc
Simmons Liver Regulator, G5c
Popham'S Asthma specific, 65c
shOll's Aguc Pills, ,;0c
klne's Nerve Restorer, 6jc
Hines Nerve Restorer, large bottles, sl.2
Eiys Cream Balm. .2c
Perry Davis Pain Killer, bic size, l5c
soc size, SOC
Miners Botanic Ointment i5c
Moxie's Nerve Food, 3ic
kiddcr's Asthma l'astiles, 30
Hoods Sarsaparilla, 6Ic
40 Rheumatic Cordial, &c
Bucklcn's Arnfca Salvc, lJc
Dr. Il ing's New Discovery, soc
Warranted FRESH and Genuine.
Il. b. HzMbhyeyS 6 Go.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1887-12-03
D. N. HUFF, Editor and Proprietor

The Republicans made their
main fight against this plank, and
the orators, Senators Hiscock,
Evarts, and Allison and ex- Sena-
tor Miller, devoted themselves al
most exclusively to combating the
views set forth in it. They
stumped the State from one end
To the other inspired with zral and
.ardor for the Republican war
tariff taxes, and endeavoied to
persuade the people of New York
that the adoption of the Demo-
cratic policy of reducing the taxes
meant commercial ruin aud the
destruction of American indus
tries. They varied the changes
on this question and brought to
bear unon it their boundless re-
sources of sophistry and misrep-
resentation. The greatest com
mercial State in the Union re-
sponded by the largest Democrat
ic majority IN five years AL
bapy Argus.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1887-12-03
THE GLORIOUS PSALMS y


iPirl,ca pr ly union soldier IN a building
an,r nrrppied hS Confederate ircnps nj Ialla'
hnmA t,un November 'ih, 1864
sing ne the r.aInS, the glorious psAms Of
old,
1hat sonndesl ilr8t upon Jmlca's plninsi
81, other musie dicrss secmA. aud cold,
Beside the melody II bayil's Psalms
sing n,r thr lsalns that echoed feeu the hills
1hpse favored hillr whore israel's sons had
hirth.
wahel wakal zach harmony the soul that flls
with rapture mote ullird 10 heaven than
earth.
sing Palms nf praise. when victory Is given
ocr nuiwnrd loes, Or over hosts upsecn.
,iehcyaG JAil sull rrigns ~ earth and
hcvun
Asstrong y saye a. ho hath ever been,
sing whru lie enra 4 alal 10 uofteat green.
Join Psalms e sltAlutss 10 tie hirl's sw Get
korg
prai-c israrls sieparrd when his hand i
seen,
Lending Nv .tep. thr qrnt streams along
Sipg whcnNil m,iurc wears 4 snowy shroud.
Whea iee bound ipuutmns iniu torrents
raril
when auure .si nro yciled behind Tho
clouds,
Lei wondering praises from thy psaltsrv
gu-h.
sing nc The Psalms cY'n when tba bntnlug
irtr
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1887-12-03
JUDGE pEYToN.

VIII Judge Peytcn, before
whom Hamilton, EabanKs, Hardy
and Figures, were tired on a writ
Of habcas corpus, bere-appolnted
by Gov. Lowry next January? ?
Is a question, now causing many
eyes to be placed on our chief
State Executive
A long list of attorneys in Judge
Peyton's district have askcd for
his re-appointment, the citizens ol
his district and of the whole
State as we'll, who desire an
honest, able, fearless Judge feel q
deep interest in his re-appnint.
nent. We believe that Coy,
Lowry will obey the expressed
demands of the PEOPLE by appoint
ing Judge Peyton for another
term. - Ripley Sentinel.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1887-12-03

Robert 3. yace, Assistant Com
missioner, fills the former position
in mWner highly crcditablc 70
himself and acceptable to oall The
Acting Commissioner while in
Congress was Chairman Of the
Committee on Patents, and ho is
Il brother 81 Senator Vance, Of
North Carollra.
Treasurer Hvaits report shows
tbat there is still outstanding more
than fifteen millions Of fractional
currency, nearly al Of which was
suppos d 70 have been destroyed,
showing thu q large amount IS
vet III circulation, though called
ID twelve years ago.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1887-12-03
TIE ALLIANCES.

One ofsthc grand OBJECTS Of the
Alliance is to elevate The farmer to
a plane commensurate with tue i'm
portance # this calling. The first
steps necessary to accomplish this
is better education; this may be
said TO BE- the ground work: an ig.
norant class of people are power
less to raise themseI. es ii th social
scale. We should discuss il our
meetings the best means of get
ting our people to read more. the
best plan of adrning and beau
tifying our homes. We should
seek to make farm life attractive
for our cbilsren. We should
make some sacrif ce to have bit
ter schools and patronlzp ttem lib
orally ;eyen with the limited fac
iIitics for education the country
las furnished at least twolhirds OF
the leading men of the nation,
To-day the boys who are grow
sng up on ths farms ara soon tc
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1887-12-03
MAGNOLIA MISSISSIPPI SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1887.

become The leadInglmen in all the
learned professions. LIT us look
to the mental training of our chill
dren, learn them to love flowers
and good books and papers. Put
musical instruments in your room,
and give them every facilty for
improving themselves IN this ac-
complislment.
We need revolution in the
over worked system OF farm life
in vogue to-day This can be ac-
conpli,hed by The use ci improv-
cd machinery, by the Intensive
system, and by a more careful
looking after the smaller matters
Of the farm. - The New Farmer.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1887-12-03
NEw YoRK Fos TaRIfF sEFoaM.

When the momentous and
pressing question of tariff reform
Genes up Immediately after the
assembling of the Fiftiyth Con-
gress, it would be we'll fol- both
houses to take into consideration
one very important fact. The
pivotal State. to which the two
political parties look with such
anxiety for next year, has de-
elared most emphatically in favor
of the immediate reduction OF
Federal taxation by sum moi
less than $l00,000,000 a year. on
the ground that unnecessary tax
alton is unjust taxation. New
York. the Empire. S;ate, pre-cm-
inent among her sister States foI
commcrciai- spirit aud industrial
enterprise, the embodiment 81
the American business world, an
nounced, on Tuesday last, that il
was in favor of those reincslia
measures Of fiscal policy recon-
mended BY the Secretary of The
Treasury year agos and, indeed
brought forward by HIM the pre-
sylous year. 1t is noteworthy that
The Democracy of New York, il
q convention assembled. indorseC
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1887-12-03

Tie IInzlehurst Sigual~Copiahar
says: The election Of Hon. j..
w. Cuncr to the Senate from
Coahoma county removes the last
colorcd man from that pody
Mr.. Cuirer served III the Lower
House LAST session, and took high
rank as an able, safe ana discreet
member. His Influence will be
felt IN the Senate, and his expert.
eucr and counsel win be valuable
in shaping the action Of that
august body.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1887-12-03
A NIGHT ATTACK.


Mississippi Regiment, tells the
following story:
In the early part of 1864 The
rcgir.cnt was mounted. This was
considered by the men as being re-
tired from active service, for the
infantry entertained Il profound
contempt for the cavalry, or But
term,lk Rangers. as they were de-
rislvely termed. OF course this
was unjust. Soon after report
ing for duty the regiment joined
in an attack on some lightly arm
cd gun-boats on the Yazoo river.
A skirmish line was formed,
dash made fir the river bank
which was reached without lnss
ami the boats were covered by oui
rifles from the protection of
lew. In such a situation gun
boats must CT ose Their side ports
and are helpless, and our artl lery
soon male short work If item.
There was really little risk and
the work WAS familiar, but 1t
pleased our new General, and as a
reward, we were cx mlted from
all fatigue duty except furnishing
a nightly guard for headquarters.
And thereby hangs a tale.
One night the commissariat, was
robbed, 10 doubt with the con
uisance of the guard, and the reg
iment was deposed from its taYor-
ed place aud made 10 do ordinary
duty il cons quence. But our
General Lad ''reckonrd without
his host" and did not inlly under
stand the resources IF the old
Thiity-eighth in an emergency.
Soon after their dIsgrace q
party Of he boys prepared a lot
If grenades-corn-c cob shells they
callrd them-and determined to
st,rm headquart rs. These shells
were made by taking the pith cut
of the cob of full ear Of corn and
rep acing it with powder. A
short fuse was inse tel and the hole
plugged. it will be seen at a
glance that this was a weapon oi
] offense not to he dispi>ed. i
exploded with report quite equa
to that of a musket. aud tht
! graius flew in all directions witt
, stingiag force. Armed with these
Shells they approached the Cen
2 erals tent in tie dead Of night.
4 The scutry was speed ly routed
and H.. General. in great alarm
e rushed from his tent in hi nigh
G robe, which, report SAYS, was un-
9 commonly shorr. A she'll or s.
: exploding between his legs speed
: lily sent iim "a cover, and lie wa
. sept uuder his blankets, thoug
Ills curses were vigorous and clio
= qucH during the siege. They r.
q moastratsd with him Oil his care
: lessncss ia sleeping without guard'
9 They assu.rd hin his lif. was nee
: essaly 10 The safety Of his con
> maud, AID inplored him, tor thei
) sake, Ito be moro canuous ]
: the future. During this address
she'll was occasionally explode
in the tent to enforce a patie.
hcning, for the General, like a
e Texans, was known TO be hand
b with the pistol, and his tempe
= Was nene of the sweetest. Ha'
st ing accomplished their purpo'
,s tlic attacking force was withdraw
,e ia true mil tary style. A RET
:. guard If one man was left, WI
: kept up lively fusiIadc, und'
II cover of which the main bod
If wilhdrew. When these were sa
t. the rear guard rock to hs heel
le Next morning the General had r
u covered his good humor, a.
ii Ia sghed heartily at the joke, al
70 restored the regiment to its 70
ID ner post of honor and Of ease.
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